Harvey Mandel - Cristo Redentor

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:07
Size: 103.3 MB
Styles: Psychedelic blues-rock-jazz guitar
Year: 1968/2014
Art: Front

[7:47] 1. Wade In The Water
[4:50] 2. Lights Out
[3:15] 3. Bradley's Barn
[4:17] 4. You Can't Tell Me
[3:36] 5. Nashville 1 A.M
[3:45] 6. Cristo Redentor
[6:27] 7. Before Six
[4:37] 8. The Lark
[3:46] 9. Snake
[2:43] 10. Long Wait

Mandel's debut remains his best early work, introducing an accomplished blues-rock guitarist capable of producing smooth, fluid lines and a variety of tasteful distortion and buzzing via an assortment of tone pedals and customized amplifiers. He augmented his flash with an adventurous appetite for orchestrated, quasi-classical strings (especially in the eerie symphonic title cut), jazz-blues-rock fusion in the mold of The Electric Flag (as on "Before Six"), and even a bit of country in the presence of top steel guitarist Pete Drake. Available in its entirety on the reissue compilation The Mercury Years. ~Richie Unterberger

Cristo Redentor

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Harvey Mandel - Righteous

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:11
Size: 94.3 MB
Styles: Blues/Rock/Jazz guitar
Year: 1969/2014
Art: Front

[3:41] 1. Righteous
[4:18] 2. Jive Samba
[7:32] 3. Love Of Life
[4:01] 4. Poontang
[4:49] 5. Just A Hair More
[3:23] 6. Summer Sequence
[6:05] 7. Short's Stuff
[3:17] 8. Boo-Bee-Doo
[3:59] 9. Campus Blues

Not as consistent as his debut, due to the presence of a few pedestrian blues-rock numbers. The better tracks, though, show Mandel continuing to expand his horizons with imagination, particularly on the cuts with string and horn arrangements by noted jazz arranger Shorty Rogers. Harvey's workout on Nat Adderley's "Jive Samba" is probably his best solo performance, and an obvious touchstone for the Latin-rock hybrid of Carlos Santana (whose own debut came out the same year); on the other side of the coin, "Boo-Bee-Doo" is one of his sharpest and snazziest straight blues-rockers. ~Richie Unterberger

Righteous

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